Going to make a return. Is it certain shes going to compete . Yes. She is slated to compete. A lot of people will be watching. Andy, thank you. The next hour of cnn this morning starts right now. 7 a. M. It went by quickly. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to cnn this morning. Im amarer walker. Im victor blackwell. The fight between the Special Prosecutor and donald trump heating up now after the former president posted this threat jerng, they say, message on his social media. Now the special counsel is calling on the judge in the january 6th case to take action. Authorities have identified another victim in the gilgo beach murders. It comes just a week after Rex Heuermann was identified. Could the killing be tied to the same suspect. Chaos in new york city. Thousands of people flood the streets after a social Media Influencer posts online about a give away. Shes back. Gymnast simone biles makes the return for the First Time Since the Tokyo Olympics. Well have the latest on tonights com
Since the Tokyo Olympics. Were following these major olympic stories and many more, all coming in here to cnn news central. New evidence ukraine is growing its capability to strike russian targets them video obtained by cnn appears to show a Ukrainian Unmanned sea drone, camera right on top there, approaching a russian landing ship at a Russian Naval base. You see the drone creep closer and closer. The screen goes black. Thats likely the moment it hit the ship and exploded. You can see here later video of that russian ship being towed near that naval base. And it is listing notably to the lefthand side. Cnns Nick Paton Walsh is live in zaporizhzhia, ukraine. Tell us what are ukrainian Officials Saying about this . And is russia acknowledging a ukrainian strike on one of its ships here . Reporter yeah, russia is suggesting the attack was repelled, but russian bloggers are talk about how one compartment of the Amphibious Assault ship was indeed flooded by this blast. Another analyst call
Its all of that and we need it. Yeah. Head Start Program for the Coa Coastal Habitat in florida. Jeff, thanks for hanging in there. You worked your shoulder and bicep muscles by holding up that device. I did. I was diving this morning, urgent care, but at least i get to spend some time with you. Id so glad, too, and weve done a little bit of work on our biceps, too. Im not injured for diving. Im glad youre not. I cant wait to hear that story. I hope the best for your friend that was there. Thanks for inspiring me to do that story. Youre so sweet. Thank you. You inspire us all the time. Thank you. All right. Hello again, everyone. Thanks for joining me. We begin with a new deadline for Donald Trumps lawyers after the historic indictment against him on 2020 election interference. Now the trump team has until monday, 5 00 p. M. Eastern, to respond to a request for a protective record by Special Counsel jack smith. In a court filing last night, Special Counsel jack smith soug from sharing
will have more on this story as we get it. but firstb deadlocked on the debt ceiling president biden and republicans failing to reach an agreement to push the economy straight off the cliff. the morning, i m dana perino, bill is off today, good morning john let s hope cooler heads prevail before that happens. is america s newsroom, the lack of progress raising the specter of america s other default experts fear that said markets into a tailspin and trigger an all out recession. yesterday s talks do not yield an agreement that both sides say they remain optimistic. i felt we had a productive discussion. we don t have an agreement yet but i did feel the discussion was productive in areas that we have differences of opinion. i believe we can still get there i believe we can get it done. the most important thing we can do right now is agree that we have to avoid a default at all costs. because a dangerous default will trigger a job killing recession that will hurt milli
the week the new york city prosecutor is now buckling to pressure and will now lot reportedly charge that marine named daniel penni with manslaughter after he restrained a violent, abusive, mentally ill criminal on a new york city subway protectingt fellow passengers that wereen being threatened. so is this a case a of self-defense? if so, is self-defense now illegal right here inre in th new york city, by the way,is the only normal people in the city are right here in this room. but first, if you listen very, very closely, you canm eni almost hear i amng enjoying thin way too much. you can almostun head, ther thet sound of whimpering and thed th total complete, utter freakout and chaos and mess that is overc at cnn. fake news headquarters across in cae town . now, in case you missed it, they hosted a town hallre with former president trumsiden now of not go well for fake news. cnn now, of course course , the moderator in this case, caitlin collins, she tried our best to ma